Houston County Researchers: For those of you who live in the vicinity of Perry, GA and would like to access the Perry LDS Family History Center (FHC), this info may assist you. The Director, Lori Lewis has just sent me the current info about that research facility. Here are some excerpts from her email: =======>>> We have been up and running since February. We have a handful of regular researchers but not the amount that we expected or can handle. Maybe you can put in some plugs for us among your researcher friends. :-) We are currently holding at the twelve hours per week that we originally set up, but I am working on getting a few more staff volunteers so that we can expand to 20 hours per week. Our current hours are as follows: Mondays: 10 AM - 12 Noon Tuesdays: 1 PM - 3 PM Wednesdays: 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM Thursdays: 10 AM - 12 Noon, and 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM Fridays: Closed Saturdays: 10 AM - 12 Noon I tried to have some mornings, some afternoons, and some evenings. I was advised not to open on Saturdays but find that is our second busiest time. Wednesday evenings are our busiest because that's when our church youth meet and some of their parents spend their waiting time at the FHC. What hours would best suit you and your researcher friends? The only phone number for the FHC is 987- 0030, which is the church's phone number. The FHC just has an extension phone for now, not a separate number. I have an answering machine set up in the FHC for when no one is at the church. Our facilities include: Four computers (networked). Two film readers. Two fiche readers. Photocopier. Laser printer. On the computers we have: The SSDI (Social Security Death Index). Military Index (casualties of the Korean and Vietnam wars). International Genealogical Index. Family History Library Catalog. AniMap 2.0. Ancestral File. Pedigree Resource Files (disks 1 - 11; to be installed very soon). North American Vital Records Index (to be installed soon) The SourceGuide. ....and more. We have: PERSI. AIS. FHLC (even the native language portion), and more on fiche. All of the Research Outlines (all U.S. states and many foreign countries). The Research Guides, and much more printed material from the LDS Family History Department including the foreign language word lists. Access to nearly all of the microfilm and microfiche holdings of the Family History Library in SLC, the largest genealogical library in the world. A patrons' vertical file with articles and information on many specific areas of research, and we have a growing map collection. The Ancestors I series on videotape. A small book collection which includes The Source, some atlases, some foreign language dictionaries, some county histories, and other reference books. The microfilm rental is: $3.50 per roll for the first 5 weeks, then $3.50 more for two months renewal, then $3.50 more to change that to indefinite loan where the film remains in the FHC. Microfiche can be acquired for use at the FHC for $.20 per sheet. All microfiche remains at the FHC indefinitely. (We do not need to send it back to SLC.) Most films arrive in about a week. The fiche seems to take 2 - 3 weeks to get here. We would be pleased to have you and other local researchers make use of our facility. It is open to the public, and we charge no fees except the rentals for film and fiche. Those fees are determined by actual cost to the FHC; we aim to make no profit. Feel free to contact me if we can be of assistance. Lori Lewis [email protected] P.S. - The annual Macon Genealogy Conference is in the works for this fall. It was in October last year and the registration fee of $5.00 or $8.00 included choices of classes, a binder of syllabus material, and lunch. I think we had about 450 people there last year. I will let you know when I get more information, which should be in a week or so. ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.